The Frank O’Mara Interview: I learn more from defeats than victories

O’Mara, like most top athletes, has an uncomfortable relationship with his career, seeing all it was but also sensing what it might have been.

TRIUMPHANT: Frank O'Mara winning the Irish Schools 1,500m by a convincing margin. Pic: Author’s own

IMAGINE a sports star writing an autobiography and not including a single paragraph about what is, to most, their biggest achievement. Imagine them sitting down across several years, writing out in painstaking detail, at a painstaking, pedestrian pace, the story of their life, only to deem two world titles unworthy of a mention.

Frank O’Mara is different. Always has been.